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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810236903321

Autore

Shivji Issa G

Titolo

Accumulation in an African periphery : a theoretical framework / / Issa G. Shivji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-283-00509-3

9786613005090

9987-08-150-9

9987-08-137-1

9987-10-262-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Saving and investment - Africa

Neoliberalism - Africa

Africa Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-95).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; By way of a preface; 1 - THE DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE; An Overview; The age of developmentalism; The crisis, the lost decade and the spectre ofmarginalisation; The age of globalised neo-liberalism; 2 - THEORIES OF DISARTICULATEDACCUMULATION; The driving forces of capitalism; The rise and fall of development economics; Imperialist Accumulation under Globalised Neo-liberalism; Primitive accumulation; Industrial and financial over-accumulation; Accumulation by dispossession; 3 - ACCUMULATION IN AN AFRICANPERIPHERY

The perverted logicThe developmental debates; Conceptual framework of disarticulatedaccumulation; 4 - SUMMING UP: THE NATIONAL AND THEAGRARIAN QUESTIONS; AFTERWORD; REFERENCES; Endnotes; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

The ""Washington consensus"" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of



capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji